field's verbose_name in templates
You can use following python code for this
Test._meta.get_field("name").verbose_name.title()
If you want to use this in template then it will be best to register template tag for this. Create a templatetags
folder inside your app containing two files (__init__.py
and verbose_names.py
).Put following code in verbose_names.py
:
from django import template
register = template.Library()
@register.simple_tag
def get_verbose_field_name(instance, field_name):
"""
Returns verbose_name for a field.
"""
return instance._meta.get_field(field_name).verbose_name.title()
Now you can use this template tag in your template after loading the library like this:
{% load verbose_names %}
{% get_verbose_field_name test_instance "name" %}
You can read about Custom template tags
in official django documentation.
psjinx's method is awesome!
And maybe you'll like this if you want to generate a field list.
Adding an iterable to the class Test makes it convenient to list fields' verbose name and value.
Model
class Test(models.Model):
...
def __iter__(self):
for field in self._meta.fields:
yield (field.verbose_name, field.value_to_string(self))
Template
{% for field, val in test_instance %}
<div>
<label>{{ field }}:</label>
<p>{{ val }}</p>
</div>
{% endfor %}